The anti vaccine people will just make up stuff if there aren't enough news stories.
The latest one I read is that polio isn't caused by a virus; it's the result of pesticides. The polio vaccine is just a giant conspiracy. And oh yeah the smallpox vaccine had nothing to due with the eradication of smallpox. Complete nutcases.
In the case of the chickens I am sure that the Aussie Dept of Agriculture will be more care to sequence these things in the future.
> Instead of shooting electron beams at a rock to see what happens these scientists should be in the wheat fields growing food for starving children in 3rd world countries
We did that. Then Greenpeace and various other eco-loonies convinced the African governments that it was better to starve than to eat our miracle engineered grains. So we went back to shooting electron beams at rocks.
> The primary source would be the study as published be the scientists who performed the work.
Did you look at the Nature article?
My guess is not.
It happens to be the study performed by the scientists who actually did the original work.
For example a quote from that article:
"We collected core samples from living P. sylvestris trees growing at lakeshore and inland (that is ten or more metres distance from lakes) microsites, and disc samples from submerged logs in northern Finland and Sweden (Supplementary Table S1 and Fig. S2). MXD data were derived from high-resolution density profiles using X-ray radiographic techniques 28 (Fig. 1). Within and between-site coherence of the northern Scandinavian MXD network has been assessed using a total of nine data sets from living treesâ"of which three (Ket, Kir, Tor) are additionally subdivided into lakeshore and inland subsetsâ"and 14 data sets from subfossil lake material. We calculated Pearson correlation coefficients among living-tree chronologies over the 1812â"1978 common period (rMXDâ=â0.72, rTRWâ=â0.58; Supplementary Table S2 and Fig. S3), and over varying periods of overlap (AD 700â"1600) between subfossil MXD chronologies (rMXDâ=â0.71; Supplementary Table S3 and Fig. S4) to estimate data homogeneity throughout space and time. To ensure signal homogeneity, we considered MXD data from only lakeshore sites together with the subfossil material discovered from the lakes for the final reconstruction (N-scan). The record integrates 587 high-resolution P. sylvestris MXD measurement series.
> Ballmer explained that the company had ceded innovations in hardware and software to Apple, but that the-times-they-are-a-'changin. 'We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple,'
Stuff like the EAS works through the use of commercial systems right now, and there have been similar mechanisms since Harry Truman set up CONELRAD in 1951.
Slashdot Mirror
RMS seems to be embracing a self-contradictory position.
He's all for ignoring the unjust copyright laws when they don't suit his position.
But the FSF goes after people for violation of their license which is based on the same unjust copyright laws.
http://www.fsf.org/news/2008-12-cisco-suit/
A quick Google search will turn up examples of ancient Greek music. Not many, but the statement that none survived just isn't correct.
And no we don't have all their literature. The general view is that about 1% survives.
http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=2806
This is food aid. Whether or not the corn shipped to Zambia represents an economic crop is completely IRRELEVANT.
What you quoted is just Greenpeace propaganda that has NOTHING to do with the question as to whether it would relieve starvation.
It's OBVIOUSLY a case of eco-politics getting in the way of famine relief.
Bullshit. Many GMO corn varieties are approved for export to the EU.
http://www.ncga.com/know-before-you-grow/
The anti vaccine people will just make up stuff if there aren't enough news stories.
The latest one I read is that polio isn't caused by a virus; it's the result of pesticides. The polio vaccine is just a giant conspiracy. And oh yeah the smallpox vaccine had nothing to due with the eradication of smallpox. Complete nutcases.
In the case of the chickens I am sure that the Aussie Dept of Agriculture will be more care to sequence these things in the future.
Now that we've had it for this generation (i.e. 2010) thankfully we won't have to worry about it until 2030 or so.
Or until we have REAL 3D breakthrough where your can walk around a solid appearing image to see it from different perspectives, without glasses.
> Instead of shooting electron beams at a rock to see what happens these scientists should be in the wheat fields growing food for starving children in 3rd world countries
We did that. Then Greenpeace and various other eco-loonies convinced the African governments that it was better to starve than to eat our miracle engineered grains. So we went back to shooting electron beams at rocks.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6669/is_2_20/ai_n29026148/
Personally I'd have much more fun in a Caterham R-500.
The is just another is a long series of recent articles that have totally distorted the original news.
First it was EPICs reaction to Obama's executive order.
Then it was the Nature article on tree rings.
Now it's a complete distortion of an government study on use of distributed IT resources.
Slashdot has turned into the Fox equivalent of nerd news.
> But then thats MS in 2012. Remove and restrict features, charge you for what was free before, and generally be a fucking bunch of dicks.
As Steve Ballmer said, we are not going to let Apple have any market unchallenged.
> The primary source would be the study as published be the scientists who performed the work.
Did you look at the Nature article?
My guess is not.
It happens to be the study performed by the scientists who actually did the original work.
For example a quote from that article:
"We collected core samples from living P. sylvestris trees growing at lakeshore and inland (that is ten or more metres distance from lakes) microsites, and disc samples from submerged logs in northern Finland and Sweden (Supplementary Table S1 and Fig. S2). MXD data were derived from high-resolution density profiles using X-ray radiographic techniques 28 (Fig. 1). Within and between-site coherence of the northern Scandinavian MXD network has been assessed using a total of nine data sets from living treesâ"of which three (Ket, Kir, Tor) are additionally subdivided into lakeshore and inland subsetsâ"and 14 data sets from subfossil lake material. We calculated Pearson correlation coefficients among living-tree chronologies over the 1812â"1978 common period (rMXDâ=â0.72, rTRWâ=â0.58; Supplementary Table S2 and Fig. S3), and over varying periods of overlap (AD 700â"1600) between subfossil MXD chronologies (rMXDâ=â0.71; Supplementary Table S3 and Fig. S4) to estimate data homogeneity throughout space and time. To ensure signal homogeneity, we considered MXD data from only lakeshore sites together with the subfossil material discovered from the lakes for the final reconstruction (N-scan). The record integrates 587 high-resolution P. sylvestris MXD measurement series.
Another in a long list of inflammatory and inaccurate articles from secondary sources.
Like yesterday's baloney about Obama's executive order.
The first thing you should learn as a thinking adult is to read the primary source. In this case the Nature article.
> Don't you know the corporate veil protects all within?
Actually it doesn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil#United_States
It's a circular relationship.
Universities are great repositories of knowledge thanks to the students who arrive knowing much and leave knowing little.
> Ballmer explained that the company had ceded innovations in hardware and software to Apple, but that the-times-they-are-a-'changin. 'We are trying to make absolutely clear we are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple,'
So they are going to innovate by copying Apple.
You go Steve.
It's called bribery.
At least we haven't has Holder testify to Congress that Habeus Corpus isn't mentioned in the Constitution.
Executive Branch and Congress have a long history of ignoring various laws and court rulings.
The Obama executive order is just the most recent example.
Eisenhower and Congress, for example, ignored many Warren Court civil rights rulings.
The US has been doing this sort of thing since Harry Truman set up CONLERAD in 1951.
Through the use != seizure.
Stuff like the EAS works through the use of commercial systems right now, and there have been similar mechanisms since Harry Truman set up CONELRAD in 1951.
The old style telephone switches I've worked with always had priority circuits for government use.
It's probably some long standing requirement going back to 1930 or so.
This summary and the EPIC article are horseshit.
> To be fair, there's at least one part of the order that could conceivably be used to justify such seizures
All that means is they can send out warnings through TV and radio stations like they have been doing since WWII or so.
The tinfoil hat stuff just doesn't apply here.
Finally a practical application for Turing test contestants!
The ones I get are usually credit card scams.
I've heard it said that these calls are coming from offshore making it hard for the FTC to trace.
Too bad we can't set the RIAA and MPAA loose on them.
More likely slashdot and EPIC have signed their own credibility death warrants.
Go read the actual executive order. It does nothing like was claimed by EPIC.